My mom would be leaving the house and she'd say 'Don't you pull out all of the old dresses in the attic and put on a show again!' And the door would close and that's exactly what I'd do. The show was calling me!

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

The past is an old armchair in the attic the present an ominous ticking sound and the future is anybody's guess.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.

My little son Atticus desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.